edit: allow to configure the suffix of the temporary filename
Sometimes, we can pick a more appropriate default suffix than ".txt",
for example, diffs could have a ".diff" suffix.
--- a/mercurial/ui.py Sat Mar 19 18:37:10 2016 -0700
+++ b/mercurial/ui.py Sun Mar 20 13:55:41 2016 -0400
@@ -971,12 +971,15 @@
self.write(*msg, **opts)
def edit(self, text, user, extra=None, editform=None, pending=None):
- extra_defaults = { 'prefix': 'editor' }
+ extra_defaults = {
+ 'prefix': 'editor',
+ 'suffix': '.txt',
+ }
if extra is not None:
extra_defaults.update(extra)
extra = extra_defaults
(fd, name) = tempfile.mkstemp(prefix='hg-' + extra['prefix'] + '-',
- suffix=".txt", text=True)
+ suffix=extra['suffix'], text=True)
try:
f = os.fdopen(fd, "w")
f.write(text)